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actionness

actionness noun: the property of being an action.

Noun

actionness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being an action.
    • That action which, upon being performed, does not prejudicially affect its agent is deemed to have lost its nature of 'actionness' (karmatva) as well as its binding force (bandhakatva).2006, Shrinivas Tilak, Understanding Karma
    • Thus despite the usefulness of the noun 'agency' to describe actionness, and the ubiquity of the 'agency–structure debate' […]2015, Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century

actionness meaning in Kannada

actionness in Kannada

ಕ್ರಿಯೆ

Origin of actionness

From action + -ness.

Questions about actionness

What does actionness mean?
Actionness means the property of being an action.
What is actionness in Kannada?
Actionness in Kannada is ಕ್ರಿಯೆ. See Actionness meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is actionness?
Actionness is a noun.

Words near actionness in the dictionary

  1. actionless
  2. actionlessness
  3. actionlet
  4. actionlets
  5. actionlike
  6. actionness
  7. actions
  8. actions at a distance
  9. actions have consequences
  10. actions speak louder than words
  11. ActionScript

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Adapted from Wiktionary: actionness (page history and authors); actionness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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